@article{718087,
  address    = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia},
  author     = {Anna K. Serke},
  journal    = {Nota Bene},
  number     = {2},
  pages      = {413-429},
  publisher  = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title      = {Nominal purposive constructions in Wapishana and Taruma},
  url        = {https://doi.org/10.1075/nb.00041.ser},
  volume     = {2},
  year       = {2025},
  abstract   = {The Indigenous languages of South America employ varying strategies for nominal purpose-marking; for instance, the markers used in this construction include benefactive case (in Macushi, see Abbot 1991) and possessives (in Lokono, see Pet 2011), but also specifically purposive adpositions (Kokama-Kokamilla, see Vallejos 2010). In this paper, I analyze and compare nominal purpose marking in two languages which are in close contact: Wapishana (Arawakan) and Taruma (unclassified). In Wapishana, the morpheme used in this construction is a TAM marker for non-present tense or irrealis mood which also functions as a nominalizer (dos Santos 2006; WLP 2000). I argue that the nominal purposive construction is essentially the subordination of a nominal predicate. The Taruma data stemming from recent fieldwork shows that the marker in question functions as a purposive marker and might also be a subordinator.},
  doi        = {10.1075/nb.00041.ser},
  hhtype     = {specific_feature},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {2950-189X},
  keywords   = {Wapishana, Taruma, purposive, subordination},
  lgcode     = {Wapishana, Taruma [tdm]},
  macro_area = {South America},
  src        = {benjamins, hh}
}